“I've always been so apathetic. I figured okay, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I feel… maybe that's motherhood, too. I want to make a better world, I want to make sure she has some place to walk around.”

—  Cass Elliot

Rolling Stone interview (1968)

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American singer 1941–1974

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